On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Keith Owens wrote:
|>On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:04:29 +0000,
|>bob hubbard <rhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|>>Hello ,
|>> Having downloaded the available patches and files from your web site i
|>>cannot find the discussed binary
|>>called '/sbin/vmdump' .
|>>1/ Where is this located ? .
|>
|>linux/lcrash/scripts/sbin.vmdump, after applying the patch. "make
|>install" copies sbin.vmdump to /sbin/vmdump.
This is correct. You shouldn't see an error if the file doesn't exist,
but then again, you need it to configure your system properly. There's
also a README in cmd/lcrash/scripts that discusses what each of those
files are for.
We need to update the READMEs to be more reflective of our move into
the kernel. I'll try to have that done for 1.0.4.
|>>2/ Will this function with swapfile located on IDE ? .
|>
|>Not at the moment, in progress.
Definitely in progress. I'm working on this with Marc Esipovich, who
has been looking at it as of two weeks ago.
|>ps. When do we get Linux on Amdahl hardware ;)?
Heh. :) The MIPS port shouldn't be that difficult, but other
platforms (and the IDE work) are getting in the way. Perhaps soon.
You (and Ralf Baechle) have asked for it at this point.
By the way, if anyone has any experience whatsoever with IDE device
drivers, I have a few questions. :) I'm utilizing do_rw_disk() in
the kernel, but there's some race conditions I'm hitting that I'd like
to resolve. Right now I have an ide_raw_read() that avoids the buffer
cache altogether, but it occasionally hangs.
Thanks, all!
--Matt
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